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TIL Bananas emit antimatter almost every 75 minutes

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N1x6 TIL that President James A. Garfield likely died of starvation after doctors insisted he be fed rectally after an assassination attempt.
oMKE TIL Horror movie soundtracks sometimes include infrasound, which is sound below the range of human hearing. Even though we can’t hear it we can still feel it and infrasound has been shown to induce anxiety, heart palpitations, and shivering.
pYRoA TIL measles destroys your immune system's memory. Most deaths are from other secondary infections.
0wjbj TIL light can propel spacecraft. Solar sails use radiation pressure exerted by sunlight to propel themselves in space, absorbing the momentum from incoming photons. Such technology has been theorized since the 1980s, and came true in 2010 with IKAROS, a small satellite.
b90k7 TIL Steve Irwin discovered a new species of turtle in the early eighties, in 1990 he brought one in for identification and the new species was officially named Elseya irwini.